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Re:Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location? by close04 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:23AM (#19216654)
My Sonos system is by far the biggest slice in the “Blocked” pie chart of my PiHole dashboard. I have no idea how much dat still ends up on their servers because I didn’t bother to dig too deeply yet.

Next step is different VLAN with no internet access.

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Re:Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location? by close04 on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:37AM (#19224539)
Just for conformity so I don't bash and run, it seems Philips (Hue) has taken the crown recently with ~30 times more attempts to call home then the next culprit, Microsoft. MS also snuck ahead of Sonos.

A lot of these attempts are probably due to the fact that they fail and keep retrying. Possibly allowing them all would lead to far fewer attempts.

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